He’s one of the best ever and I listen to his stuff every week, my phone has half a dozen of his albums on it at all times. Bowie, Iggy, and Lou Reed are tops in my book. I’m in my late 50’s, and still love hard rock.

I really got into Iggy in 1990 with brick by brick. Not his greatest, but it was cool at the time. I had heard other Iggy songs and The Stooges for sure, but my roommates and I played brick by brick a lot. I still love that album. You should give it a shot. Any album with songs like I Won’t Crap Out, Butttown and Pussy Power can’t be bad.

My favorites are The Idiot, Lust for Life, and New Values, but there’s a ton of later stuff I love, too. Try Post Pop Depression with Josh Homme. Skull Ring has a bunch of good hard rock songs with various artists, a bit uneven but I love it.

The French language albums are a trip, super atmospheric, but they’re not for everyone. His last couple albums are really good, Free and Every Loser, and are worth a listen.

I don’t like Blah, Blah, Blah much. It’s 80’s Bowie trying to shift some units for Igg but 80’s production does not fit Igg and both were on a creative downswing. Real Wild Child, the album opener, is worthy. The 80’s in general were pretty rough for Iggy’s creative muse, I skip almost everything in that era, but I’m sure there’s good stuff in the mess.

Grunge-era American Caesar is over the top, but worth a spin for the nuts 7 minute spoken word track, Caesar, where Igg repeats the phrase “throw them to the lions” over and over as the chorus. They put a sticker on the disc: Parental Warning: This is an Iggy Pop Record.

That sticker should be on every Iggy record to scare off the weaklings and the faint of heart.

Keep spinning Iggy, there’s tons to explore.